https://blog.torproject.org/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea/
An increasing number of people are asking us about the recent paper coming out of Inria in...
It's been 13 yesrs after this blog was written. Does the claim still holds true?
I answered there. Not sure why you open a completely new post for that follow-up question?! You could have asked just here.
I thought it is better as the focus is different: one is about "Is a blog post written 13 years ago still valid today", the other one is "If BT protocol leaks information anyways, why VPN is acceptable but other's not." That's the reasoning.
Better, because it is free and secure. And at same time you are torrenting, you are helping the network. But a downside, it is the speed and amount of peers you find is less compared to the clearnet. Also it is not the best option to surf the clearnet, tor is better at this.
I don't understand what the down votes are for. Disagreement? What's wrong in hoping for improvements in a 13 years gap? I understand and agree that BT over Tor is bad, but two doesn't conflict.
hoping for improvements
There have been improvements, just on the fronts you haven't been looking for. Also, if I am correct, torrenting over Tor would be painfully slow compared to normally doing it or via a VPN. It is not worth the hassle.
The way it was worded might be seen as improvements to torrenting on Tor instead of improvements to i2p.
You could probably rent a seedbox or more generic service like an aws ecs instance and then download from the seedbox or s3 via tor.
